Review of the Book Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Retrospect. Africa´s Development Beyond 2015

Headquarters of the United Nations, in order to channel the different nations towards the path of development. As a result of this meeting a statement, the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) arises and includes among its main goals: reducing extreme poverty and hunger, fighting infant and maternal mortality, stopping the spread of diseases (mainly HIV and malaria) and promoting universal access to primary education, reducing gender gap and articulating economic growth with environmental sustainability. 2015 was the deadline to achieve those objectives, thus, making this book a need to evaluate and reflect on the progress made in the African continent regarding these stated objectives. Therefore, through twenty chapters, a detailed study of the different policies made and implemented in the continent is developed, including obstacles encountered in different concrete experiences, the particularities relating to each of the regions, the influence of developed international context and the challenges presented in the African scenario after 2015. The authors also discuss the notion of development, indicating that, in general, schools of thought that have influenced the development of programs and policies related to this subject come from intellectuals or institutions regarding European and North American origin, them being outside the particularities of the African continent. This has aroused criticism since the simple extrapolation of recipes of thought from the first world in order to achieve development does not take into account the diversity of cultures that inhabit the continent and their respective worldviews. Another important aspect is the analysis of the variables and indicators in development programs, which are based on a purely quantitative approach to measure the well-being of communities;